by David Halperin
It is 1963 and Danny Shapiro, who lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia, is thirteen and different. He wears glasses. He's into UFOs. He's Jewish in a mostly gentile environment. His father is distant and resentful and his mother is dying. She has been dying, in fact, since Danny was born; he's even ...
A coming of age story with a twist. At times funny and often pleasantly strange, this story still creates that heartache so familiar to fans of this kind of story.
I gave this book less than a day, and less than 50 pages. It seemed like it might be interesting, but the language was a bit too literary, and the narrative was difficult to follow between what was happening in his current life and what was happening in his journal. Nothing about it at that point ...
May come back and read this later, for now there are other books I want to read first.
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